out of spirits en · ADP
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Feeling discouraged or melancholy.
A party of natives in Tierra del Fuego endeavoured to explain to us that their friend, the captain of a sealing vessel, was out of spirits, by pulling down their cheeks with both hands, so as to make their faces as long as possible.
1872, Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals: